Wow, was that fun! Nice sunny but cool day, perfect for some boost and brake bed.

One does forget how fast these cars are after driving our 3,500 Lbs sleds for 6 months. Brakes felt like crap as I rolled out of the plant. I de-greased some parts of the engine bay, then washed the whole car and wiped it down in the warm sun. Grill and mirror look a lot better if I do not say so myself.

I drove around the back lot of my work for some laps, just making sure things seemed to be ok, and then rode the brakes a tad. The rattles I had were gone, so the heat shield definitely was the culprit on that one, plus my aluminium finishing panel in the back seat area.

With the old race carb now having a venturi in the secondary, the old bog is gone! I gave it a few blasts on #91 but it is so hard to drive fast, watch for traffic and watch for police, it is virtually impossible that time of day. I braked hard a few times and can feel the brake pads getting better and the new front rotors eliminated the pedal pulse I had.

As I headed off to #10 and Andy's shop, I the the brakes really hard, the g-force quite impressive on decel. Once I got onto the side road to Andy's shop I let'er rip, fighting for traction all the way to 5th gear, then nailed the brakes, putting me hard into the seat belts. COOL!!!

Colin Jackson was at Andy's, checking out his car after tire testing for GoodYear at Button Willow. Colin broke the lap record for GT3 again, smoked it actually. Goodyears tires turned out to be too soft for Colin, much to the shock of the Goodyear engineers. Next race and test will be at Portland and Colin has qualified for the SCCA Runoff at Indy now.

I headed to White Rock, figuring I might as well get some driving in, and, pick up my Garmin which I use as a speedometer, forgot it this morning. Car was running just perfectly. I did another brake heading off at the Pink palace at the end of #99.

Traffic was heavy heading back into Richmond, so it was just a cruise watching temps and the Wide band, again being so hard with traffic about.

Ready for a season of driving, Knox is but two weeks away now and of course the 510 day next week..

Hi Bert,
Your trims are in much better condition than mine and the first piece that the staples go through are badly affected by ferrous oxide, must have come from a wetter area of ‘merica. As you say those staples are very tenacious and don’t let go easily. I think I’ll probably need to replace the first piece of metal that the staples go through and then carefully drill through and use small pop rivets to hold it all together, then file/grind them down (carefully) so they don’t stick out to far to snag on anything. As you also suggest, what is the purpose of the glue? Don’t think I’m going to worry about that either! There is a firm in Australia that are making reproduction squeegees and they are excellent quality and they sell sets , inner and outer for two and four door 1600’s (you call them 510’s). Check them out on eBay.com.au under datsun 1600. AU$60.00 for two door and double that for four door. Thanks for your comprehensive write up, much appreciated. Bernie.

Beegee2 wrote:Hi Bert,
Your trims are in much better condition than mine and the first piece that the staples go through are badly affected by ferrous oxide, must have come from a wetter area of ‘merica. As you say those staples are very tenacious and don’t let go easily. I think I’ll probably need to replace the first piece of metal that the staples go through and then carefully drill through and use small pop rivets to hold it all together, then file/grind them down (carefully) so they don’t stick out to far to snag on anything. As you also suggest, what is the purpose of the glue? Don’t think I’m going to worry about that either! There is a firm in Australia that are making reproduction squeegees and they are excellent quality and they sell sets , inner and outer for two and four door 1600’s (you call them 510’s). Check them out on eBay.com.au under datsun 1600. AU$60.00 for two door and double that for four door. Thanks for your comprehensive write up, much appreciated. Bernie.

That would be "America" not 'merica ok?

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